Socialist Resistance

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As 100th British soldier dies, protest demands Troops Out of Iraq!

Socialist Resistance no32  |  page 15

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The only job which can provide a normal life is to become a soldier, policeman or peshmerga militiaman, or enrol as an activist with one of the political parties.

Because of the absence of proper government in Iraq and the lack of secure borders, the way is open for any intelligence service around the world to send people in.

Every day hundreds of tons of time-expired drugs and bad quality food are imported and sold, so that dozens of people die and hundreds become ill.

Prostitution and the use and sale of drugs are also on Illally including Fatah Zakholy, as I mentioned above, and tortured dozens of people, just because they did not vote for the Iraqi Constitution in the referendum. attacked the buildings of the Kurdish Islamic Party, Yekgertui Islami Kurdistan, killed four people and injured another twenty.

And Iyad Allawi, the previous prime minister, declared on November 26 that there is now more torture of people in Iraq than in the time of Saddam Hussein. Is this a democracy?

Sometimes people speak about Kurdistan as a symbol of democracy, but if we look back al last niteen years rule by those parties. we can see that they did not take a single step towards democracy. More than two hundred people rallied in Birmingham's Victoria Square on Feb 1, at a vigil called by STW and Birmingham Trades Council to highlight the 100th death of a the country that day. the War, whose son Private Phillip Hewitt died in July in Iraq as a result of a roadside bomb in Iraq, with her daughter. British serviceman in Iraq. This was one of many rallies across

Pictured above is Sue Smith from Military Families against his family and children to seek asylum in Britain. When he arrived back at Heathrow Airport, he was seized by immigration officials and is now being held in a detention centre near the airport.

Immigration authorities failed to successfully verify documents he was carrying as proof of his claim that his life was in danger.

They failed to contact the author of one document; Mr Lutfullah Mashal, a former Interior Ministry spokesperson. Mr Lutfullah is currently in Britain at the invitation of the government.